The garden is definitely waning, looking dry and scruffy around the edges. I’m still harvesting a lot of food and more to come this month. On my photo-taking expedition this afternoon, individual plants and groupings of plants caught my eye with their beauty. And a few fine specimens of vegetables ready to harvest.
Massive sunflower bouquet sprinkles our table with pollen I harvested some dill seed today. Nice to grow your own for next summer’s pickles. Hoophouse. Basil and tomatillo and a few eggplants remain, rest of space is transitioning to fall planting. Front of garden with tomato row at right and indomitable black zucchini plant at left (slowing down now). I had to remove the costata romanesca zucchini, it was overwhelming. A patty pan grown a bit large. Have to eat these faster. A fine patch of kaleBorage blossoms, such a sweet blueWhat’s in here? A mixed row. Some tomatoes, leaf celery, dill, arugula, beets, leeks, new spinach, kale…Pulled up the bygone cilantro that was everywhere. Fall crop in former fava bean patch. Carrots, broccoli, and escarole “Eros” planted too close together and all growing well. A few fall peas are starting at the back. I love a massive red cabbage.Scruffy broccoli row. Still getting some side shoots. Potato row – tops are dead, have yet to dig. Horseradish and tomato row. Still canning quarts of sauce – 15 so far. I dug out “all” the horseradish last year and it’s back, bigger and more vigorous than ever. Squash tunnel, featuring some Red Kuri . One is damaged with a fence mark. Aerial squash“Dakota Dessert” squash. I was unable to resist the seed catalog description. Still getting a lot of cucumbers. Have canned 8 pints of pickles and fermented 6 pints so far.Under corner trellis. Carrots and kale, some overgrown and stunted lettuce. Fruit yard. Tango cosmos, another dye plant – love this vibrant orange bloomDyer’s coreopsis in the dye garden. I got some beautiful bronze oranges on silk fabric and thread from it. Grapes ripening unevenly. The upper storey is decorated with sunflowers and Wild Goldenglow .A nice color combination in the herb bed. Berggarten sage and monarda, another nice color combination in the herb bed.
And that’s it for now. Gotta be something I should be doing.
